A Real Photo postcard of the Tarbox School, originally belonging to Sara Webb, a student who was in the fifth or sixth grade around 1932. This view shows the front exterior of the three-story school building prior to the structural damage caused by...

A photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Harold D. Street enrolling their daughter, Lajuanda (second girl) and a friend at Glenn Elementary School, Nashville, Tennessee, 27 August 1957. Enrollment came under a court-approved plan, which called for...

A photograph of irate segregationists exchanging words with supporters of desegregation at Fehr Elementary School, Nashville, Tennessee, 9 September 1957. Police officers escorted African American students into the school, marking the first day of...

Excerpts from an interview with civil rights leader Charles Tony Moorman on 09 August 2007 by Larry Patterson as part of the Civil Rights Oral History Project. In the excerpts Moorman discusses when the Washington Junior High School basketball...

A postcard of Hume-Fogg High School, a public high school located at 700 Broadway in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1912 Hume High School and Fogg High School merged into Hume-Fogg at the school's current site on Broadway. The building was constructed...

“Nashville’s public school officials have planned a program based on democracy and defense. Not only are young people taught the fundamentals of their form of government, but they are taught the necessary principles of preserving it … one of the...

An unidentified student of the Nashville public school system, studying engine machinery based on a program based on democracy and defense, circa April 18th, 1941. Forms part of Record Group 412, Photographs Collection. 1 photograph negative : b &...

An unidentified student of the Nashville public school system, wearing a face shield and using welding equipment, related to the public school program based on democracy and defense, circa April 18th, 1941. Forms part of Record Group 412,...

An unidentified student of the Nashville public school system, wearing a face shield and using welding equipment, related to the public school program based on democracy and defense, circa April 18th, 1941. Forms part of Record Group 412,...

Pictured: Two students training on adding machines (left, unidentified, and right, Reesie Lee Hewitt). According to the April 18th, 1941 Nashville Banner: “Nashville’s public school officials have planned a program based on democracy and defense. ...

“Nashville’s public school officials have planned a program based on democracy and defense. Not only are young people taught the fundamentals of their form of government, but they are taught the necessary principles of preserving it … with...

“Nashville’s public school officials have planned a program based on democracy and defense. Not only are young people taught the fundamentals of their form of government, but they are taught the necessary principles of preserving it … even fifth...

A photograph of Mrs. Wilma Folwell, librarian, and the student library assistants on the steps of Bailey School in 1954. Bailey School, built in 1929, is located in the Eastwood neighborhood of East Nashville. The student library assistants were...

A page from a mounted and bound volume of twenty-five pen-and-ink wash drawings, and two pen-and-ink maps of Nashville created by William A. Eichbaum during the 1850s. Eichbaum was a Nashville bookseller and resident for fifty years. This drawing...

A photograph of the Cavert School, located at 2500 Fairfax Avenue in Nashville, circa 1996. Cavert School opened as an elementary school circa 1928. The structure is designed in the classical style and with Eakin School was one of Nashville's early...

A copy photograph of the Fogg High School Juniors, Class of 1892 outside of Fogg High School. Named for attorney Francis B. Fogg, Fogg High School opened in 1875 becoming the second public high school in Nashville, Tennessee. The building 3 stories...

Excerpts from an interview with Alice Smith Risby conducted on 05 April 2007 by John Egerton as part of the Nashville Public Library's Civil Rights Oral History Project. Risby, wife of Reverend Kelly Miller Smith, Sr., discusses her daughter's...

1 map; 58 x 75 cm. A plat map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee and the surrounding area, originally published in 1908 by G. M. Hopkins Company, showing the various buildings, landscapes, acreage, and street routes for several blocks bound by Sixth...

1 map; 58 x 75 cm. A plat map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee and the surrounding area, originally published in 1908 by G. M. Hopkins Company, showing the various buildings, landscapes, acreage, and street routes for several blocks bound by...